Description of problem: On a laptop with a synaptics touchpad, the default xorg.conf file written during install does not load the synaptics driver. A new xorg.conf generated with system-config-display does add configuration for the synaptics driver. Perhaps the X server should always try to load the synaptics driver? It seems to handle the case where it isn't present fine: (II) LoadModule: "synaptics" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation" (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.4 (1404) Mouse0 no synaptics event device found (checked 16 nodes) Query no Synaptics: 6003C8 (EE) Mouse0 no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device (EE) Mouse0 Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware. (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pyxf86config-0.3.33-1.fc7
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Are you sure that synaptics driver is *that* important these days? I got pretty reasonable results on my notebook just with default mouse driver.
I find that I can't live without vertical scrolling enabled. To do this I need to add the synaptics driver to the config file. Of course, after saying this and doing a fresh install, I see that I got a synaptics section. However, I see that it is being configured with: InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer" I recommend changing this to: InputDevice "Synaptics" "AlwaysCore" The problem occurs when a laptop is docked with the lid closed the synaptics device is often disabled and so the X server cannot find the pointer and crashes.
pyxf86config doesn't configure anything, it's just a binding to the config file library. This is in rhpxl if anything.
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported during the development of Fedora 8. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are changing the version of this bug to '8'. If this bug still exists in rawhide, please change the version back to rawhide. (If you're unable to change the bug's version, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help and we apologize for the interruption. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
As of Fedora 9 we should be picking up the synaptics driver automagically, even at install time. In F10 this is all handled by the input hotplug subsystem.